hassle of cover page

Hello, there

When I print the schematic or waveform from Cadence, every time the
printout contains an additional cover page listing some details (usr
name, printer name, font, ...) about the print work. I know that it's
OK to use, but it's really annoying if you want print many schematic,
one by one. Not sure if I should fix it with Cadence printer config. or
with Unix printer environment config., so any suggestion is appreciated
much!

rgds

-Andy

 

In the printing dialog there is a check button, I think it is called print
note. Disable that one and you don't have that page.

Printing is something cadence forgot to improve ever since I started having
to use this software late 1997. It is complicated to set up, demands a lot
of specific knowledge on your printer and it is not even able to print your
hierarchy in any reasonable sequence. Every schematic that go to the
printer has a needlessly large preamble. Only the first page need this
(Setup of fonts and other things which is needed to make things work.) I
experimented with filtering away the unnescessary prologs and got a really
quick printing sequence.

The only nice thing is that if you know your things, you can tune your
cadence installation to give you about anything you want. Problem is just
the time you need to do it. Let's start hoping that the 6.0 or 6.1 version
fix this, but since they didn't fix it from 4.x to 5.x I guess they will
not do it for 6.x

 

I tried to figure out how to customize that, because
we have the defaults modified (to mail == nil and header == nil)
fo the schematic and layout plot options as well.

But I couldn't find a way for the AWD hardcopy form
neither through a global variable like 'schPlotOptions'
for schematic plot options nor through a 'defUserInitProc'
function.

Hmm???

But then I found this magic thread

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.cad.cadence/browse_thread/thread/38d6542789025106

awvSetOptionValue("hcHeader" nil)
awvSetOptionValue("hcMailLogNames" nil)

Put the above lines in your .cdsinit, and this modifies the defaults,
should work.

Bernd

PS: Sven you should have know this because the initial question
was from you ;-).

 

Hi, there

Thanks for replies. But the thing is that even though I uncheck the
button close to "plot with `header `notes `gird/axes" in the "submit
plot" window (here, eg, plot from Virtuoso Schematic), the printout
still gives the additional cover page. But if I switch the plotter from
the real printer to ps/eps plotter, the ps/eps file is clean and only
contains the schematic itself. So I still doubt that possibly I need to
do something to the printer config. somewhere. Any clues about that?

rgds

-Andy

 

Yeah, I have to admit I have to check my own knowledge on cadence on
groups.google.com. My brain refrains from remembering anything regarding
this software. It's a pity because I have spent so many hours of my life in
front of it.

 

What about keeping the same plotter but printing to file. Do you get a
cover page then ?

 

And you are not any more ... ?

 

Oh, yeah, when I read myself a couple of days later it looks like cadence
has won the battle, but no, I still find myself in front of an icfb session
every day.